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Apple has been holding back significantly in the publishing area. Although the manufacturer has very attractive hardware with the iPad and the most mature digital sales platform with iTunes, they had still to come out with original ideas for our previously discussed book of the future (German link). Continue Reading »

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Today I want to break with our Freaky Friday series and the book excerpts from How to ruin your project. Instead I want to jump on a topic we already reported about this week: the launch of the Media Markt online shop. But I want to twist the point of view on this topic in a direction that fits the fashion of this column: What went wrong with the Media Markt shop?Because in my personal opinion the launch was a complete disaster. Continue Reading »

The brand new Customization 500 ("An International Benchmark Study on Mass Customization and Personalization in Consumer E-Commerce") was recently published. It's an international comparison study for which the professors Dominik Walcher and Frank Piller, put 500 Mass customizing companies under the microscope. Continue Reading »

Figureprints with its popular Xbox and World of Warcraft games figures may be still the top-selling company for 3D prints, but Shapeways is the first company that published its numbers. "2011 was a solid year at Shapeways. We saw a huge growth in the number of community members, uploaded models, 3D printed products, shops opened and income earned by Shapeways shop owners. Continue Reading »

In the last two weeks, 100 participants have registered for Exceed 2012 already (see also Was wird aus den Live Shopping Days?). When looking at the following map, it becomes obvious why we like to let our spring conference take place in Berlin: Continue Reading »

I am a frequent online buyer. I like to get the stuff I want via parcel service, the descriptions online, the recommendations and the availability (and wonder every time I go to my local electronics seller if they have got the thing I want.). Also, if I find a good offer, Im kind of an impulsive buyer. So overall I would say: I like online shopping! But sometimes there are these days when I really hate it . Continue Reading »

As we already reported, the CES brought some news for NFC. But not only NFC enabled notebooks will come to stores soon, but also some other use cases will likely be transferred to real life. Semiconductor producer NXP presented some interesting ideas for application. One is the customization of still packed electronic goods like mobiles. Customer will be able to select a background and a text to be displayed, when it is turned on the first time. Perfect for personalization of presents. Continue Reading »

Two very annoying women keep showing up in my mailbox: Since registering for the Germany-based music streaming service Simfy, I've received numerous mails, written from a virtual Julia as well as a virtual Anna urging me to subscribe to a premium service. Continue Reading »

Exactly one year ago, Anissa Stettner from handmade2.0 has outlined here, what's so special about Pinterest ("Die neue stethik des Social Shopping"): "Pinterest is more than just a crossover of FFFound and tumblr. Rather, it is a successful fusion of concepts such as ThisNext, flickr and tumblr and for this reason it is so compelling, because in fact one could almost put aside membership of four different platforms, including the respective activities such as commenting, posting, re-posting and interacting with the community." Continue Reading »